Ten Years Hence

The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to
affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty and the community
use guest speaker comments as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging
issues and the next ten years.

Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the O'Brien-Smith Leadership Program made possible
by a generous endowment from William H. O'Brien (ND '40) and his wife, Dee.
The program is named after their respective parents. The O’Brien-Smith Program endowment
provides an opportunity for students and faculty to interact with distinguished
leaders from business, government, and non-profit sectors.

Robert Schleckser is Vice President and Treasurer for Exxon Mobil Corporation. Schleckser joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company in 1978 as a Process Engineer. In his career of thirty-five years, Schleckser has had a variety of management positions in Engineering, Planning, Refining, Supply/Logistics, Corporate Finance, Shipping, Banking/Cash Management, Investor Relations, and Controllers.

Lloyd Adams is the Chief Operating Officer for SAP Americas' Regulated Industries team, which is comprised of the Healthcare, Federal Civilian, Department of Defense, Aerospace & Defense, State and Local Government, Higher Education, and Utilities markets.

Prior to her selection to be the nineteenth Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Lt. Gen. Johnson was the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Intelligence, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Casteau, Belgium.

by John Gordon, Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, IBM, Watson Solutions Division

March 21, 2014

John Gordon is the Vice President of Marketing & Strategy IBM's Watson Solutions Division. John has the responsibility to develop the end-to-end business model for transforming the innovations created by IBM Watson into a strategic set of industry solutions.

Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science.

As the global government affairs leader for GE Power & Water, Water & Process Technologies, Jon Freedman monitors and shapes domestic and international water policies and helps GE Power & Water develop technology collaborations with government entities. Jon also co-leads GE’s Natural Gas Policy Working Group.

"Ten Years Hence" is listed as BAUG-30210 , and is open to all Notre Dame and St. Mary's students and employees.

There are no prerequisites to enroll.

See your academic advisor or your department chair for additional detail. You are expected to attend all lectures and be prepared to engage speakers. No unexcused absences. This is a "Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory" course. This course requires no textbook purchases, examinations or term papers.